Frank Moore Colby

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Frank Moore Colby (born February 10, 1865 in Washington, DC , † March 3, 1925 in New York City ) was an American lecturer, writer and editor.

Life

Colby studied at Columbia University in New York . After successfully completing his degree, he was entrusted with a teaching position at Amherst College ( Amherst ) in 1890 . In 1891 he moved back to Barnard College in New York in the same position .

1893 brought him Charles Kendall Adams in the publisher Appleton & Company , where Colby expertly the staff of the editor of several encyclopedias added.

In addition to his job as an editor, a number of independent works and a large number of articles in various journals and magazines, such as Commercial Advertiser , North American Review or The Bookman , have emerged over the years .

Works (selection)

as an author
  • Outlines of general history . ABC, New York 1900.
  • Imaginary Obligations . Dodd Mead, New York 1905.
  • Constrained attitudes. Essays . Dodd Mead, New York 1910.
  • The marging of hesitation . Dodd Mead, New York 1921.
  • The Colby Essays . Harper, London 1927 (2 vols.).
as editor
  • Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia .
  • New International Encyclopedia .
  • The International Yearbook .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [Obituary] . In: Chicago Tribune . March 3, 1925, p. 12 .
personal data
SURNAME Colby, Frank Moore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lecturer, writer, and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1925
Place of death New York City